Sale: 409 / Modern Art and Sidelines of the German Avantgarde, Dec. 06. 2013 in Munich Lot 352

 

352
Erika Giovanna Klien
New York 74. St. Marks Place, 1930.
Watercolor
Estimate:
€ 14,000 / $ 15,120
Sold:
€ 15,000 / $ 16,200

(incl. surcharge)
New York 74. St. Marks Place. 1930.
Watercolor over pencil.
Twice signed and dated lower left, titled lower right. On wove paper, firmly laid on backing board. 39 x 23,5 cm (15,3 x 9,2 in), size of sheet.

PROVENANCE: From artist's estate.
Bertha Klien, artist's sister.
Private collection Austria.

EXHIBITION: Erika Giovanna Klien, Rachel Adler Gallery, New York, October-December 1989, cat. no. 27 with illu. in black and white.

Erika Giovanna Klien counts among the most gifted artists of Viennese Kinetism. From 1919 to 1925 the artist studied at the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts, among others, with Frank Cizek, Rudolf Larisch and Reinhold Klaus. Under Cizek's supervision Klien was occupied with architecture studies as well as with the transformation of phenomena of perception into a coherent picture language. This way she laid the basis for her later artistic creation. In 1929 Erika Giovanna Klien emigrated to the U.S.A., where she taught at various art schools. Unlike her earlier technical-optimistic works, her art from the New York days is of a threatening character, which is emphasized by the space-filling make. [EH].




352
Erika Giovanna Klien
New York 74. St. Marks Place, 1930.
Watercolor
Estimate:
€ 14,000 / $ 15,120
Sold:
€ 15,000 / $ 16,200

(incl. surcharge)